Michaeline A. Crichlow is Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Duke University. Patricia Northover is Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, Mona. Together, they are the authors of Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Juan Giusti-Cordero is Professor of History and Director of the Caribbean Social Science Archive at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He is the coeditor (with Ulbe Bosma and G. Roger Knight) of Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940.

List of Tables and Illustrations
Foreword
Philip McMichael
Introduction
Michaeline A. Crichlow, Patricia Northover, and Juan Giusti-Cordero
1. Global Economies and Historical Change: Rethinking Social Struggles and Transformations in Africa's Zones of Rurality (1500-1800)
Ray A. Kea
2. Making Development through Rural Initiative "Unthinkable": Tanzania in the Time of Ujamaa
James Giblin
3. Racialization and the Historical Production of Contemporary Land Rights Inequalities in Upland Northern Thailand
Daniel B. Ahlquist and Amanda Flaim
4. Making Things for Living, and Living a Life with Things
Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
5. Race and Class Marginalization in the Globalization of the Rice Industry
Wazir Mohamed
6. At the Margins of Citizenship: Oil, Poverty, and Race in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Gabriela Valdivia

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8. Rediscovering Afro-American Ruralities: The Mississippi Delta and Loiza (Puerto Rico) as Cultural Hot Spots
Juan Giusti-Cordero
9. Race in the Reconstruction of Rural Society in the Cotton South since the Civil War
Jeannie Whayne
Contributors
Index